Machine for packing matches.



M. PARIDON.

MACHINE FOR PACKING MATCHES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 19' 1914.

1, 146,346. Patented July 13, 1915.

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MICHAEL PARIDON, OF OSW'EGO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR PACKING MATCHES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 19, 1914. Serial No. 867,336.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL PARIDON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city and county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Packing Matches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for packing matches in boxes, and has especial relation to means for compacting and endwise positioning the matches within the box trays.

The present invention constitutes an improvement on or modification of the devices set out in the pending application of Joseph G. Donnelly, Serial No. 727,282, filed October 23, 1912, and, similarly to that struc- ,ture, it is particularly though'not exclusively designed for use in connectionwiththe match packing machine disclosed in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,016,436, dated February 6, 1912.

In the .present embodiment of my invention I employ two spaced swinging members between which the filled match trays are impelled and I joint these members by a lost motion connection with a vertically reciprocable presser head which extends transversely above the path of the trays and is movable upon and from the top of the latter. A spring connection for the said members tends to hold them normally inward in close relation to the sides of the interposed tray, the connection between the presser head and the members being such that when the head is in raised position the members are swung outward against the action of the spring so as to enable the passage of the successive trays between the members and beneath the head. head the said members are yieldingly swung against the sides of the interposed tray to In the downward movement of'the.

features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, partly in elevation, of a portion of the tray-conveyer and adjuncts of a match packing machine embodying my nvention, only so much of the machine beng shown as is necessary to illustrate the lnvention. In this view the compacting and positioning devices are shown in full lines as in idle position above the tray and in dotted lines as in action upon the matches contained in the tray. Fig. 2 is a similar section through one of the match holders and the said devices, the latter being illustrated in their active position. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section as on the line 3-'3 of Fig. 1. Fig. t is a horizontal section, as'on' the line H of Fig. 3. i

10 designates a part of the bed ortable upon which the tray conveyer 11 is supported and guided. This conveyer comrises an endless chain of links 12 provided on their undersides with gear teeth 13 with which meshthe teeth of the actuating gear wheels, of which one is indicated at 14:, and on their upper sides with holders 15 for the box trays 16.

Rising from the bed or' table, adjacent the path of the conveyer and beyond the usual match delivery station, is a standard 17 having therein a guide way for the vertical limb of a T-shapedplunger 18. On the upper end of this plunger, extending at right angles to the arms 19 thereof, is an arm 20 which overhangs the path of the trays in the tray'conveyer and constitutes a presser head. The arms 19 have lost motion connections with the'presser head, that is to say, they are provided at their respective ends with horizontal grooves or channels 21 in which are slidingly and rotatably seated studs or rollers 22 on crank-arms 23 formed on or aifixed to a pair of depending blades 24 mounted to swing laterally toward and from the path of the box trays. These blades are provided with hubs 25 which are swung on stud shafts 26 fixedly supported in properly-spaced position by means of a standard 27 rising from the table. The hub of each of the blades is provided with an upwardly and outwardly extending arm 28 arranged in angular relation to the adjacent crank arm, and the arms 28 of the respective Patented July 13, 1915.

hubs are coupled by a spring 29, preferably a flat bow spring, which tends normally to swing the arms 28 outward on their aXes, and thus move the depending blades inward or toward each other.

The vertical body of the plunger extends below the table and is pivotally connected by means of a link 30 to one arm of a lever 31 which is fulcrnmed in a bearing bracket on a convenient part of the supporting frame. The other arm of the lever bears a stud or roller 32 which contacts with the periphery of a cam 83 borne by a driven shaft 3% journaled in bearings on the supporting frame. The stud or roller 32 is held yieldingly in engagement with the cam by means of a spring 35 which is secured to the adjacent lever arm and to the table; such spring 35 thus tending yieldingly to depress the presser head through the intervention of the lever, and the cam acting positively to raise the head through the same agency.

lhe periphery of the cam 33 includes a concentric portion 36 which, in a part of the rotation of the cam, acts upon the opposing lever arm and depresses it sufficiently to raise the presser head and maintain it temporarily elevated and the blades, perforce, swung outward, in order that the filled box trays may be successively advanced between the blades and beneath the head. The periphery of the cam also comprises a scalloped portion 37 which in the remainder of the cams rotation cooperates with the spring 35 to raise and oscillate the lever arm in such manner that the presser is yieldingly lowered and the blades are permitted to swing yieldingly inward against the respective sides of the match tray and against the ends of projecting matches, if any; said blades, by virtue of their lost motion connection with the presser member, contacting with the sides of the box immediately before the presser head rests on the matches, and said head and blades being simultaneously vibrated to insure still more effectually their respective compacting and positioning operations on the matches.

I claim 1. In a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding match receptacles, of a presser member above the path of the receptacles, a pair of blades laterally movable toward and from said path, a support for said blades, joint connections between said blades and the presser member, means for yieldingly moving said blades in close relation to the sides of the successive receptacles presented therebetween, and means for vertically reciprocating the presser member, whereby in the upward movement of said member the blades are positively swung outward and in the downward movement of the member the blades are yieldingly swung inward.

2. In a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding match receptacles, of a presser member above the path of the receptacles, a pair of blades laterally movable toward and from said path, .a support for said blades, joint connections between said blades and the presser member, means for yieldingly maintaining said blades in close relation to the sides of the successive receptacles presented there between, and means for vertically reciprocating said presser member and for periodically imparting a series of vibratory jarring movements thereto.

3. In a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding match receptacles, of a presser member above the path of the receptacles, a pair of swinging blades laterally movable toward and from said path, a support to which said blades are pivotally connected in spaced relation to each other, sliding and pivotal joint connections between said blades and the presser member, a spring connection between said blades, and means for vertically reciprocating said head.

at. In a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding match receptacles, of a presser member above the path of the receptacles, a pair of swinging blades laterally movable toward and from said path, a support to which said blades are pivotally connected in spaced relation to each other, sliding and pivotal oint connections between said blades and the presser member, a spring connection between said blades, and means for vertically reciprocat ing said presser member and for periodically imparting a series of vibratory jarring movements thereto.

5. In. a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding match receptacles, of a presser member above the path of the receptacles, a pair of blades laterally movable toward and from said path, a support for said blades, lost motion connections between said blades and the presser member, means for yieldingly moving said blades in close relation to the sides of the successive receptacles presented therebetween, and means for vertically moving said presser member including provisions for moving the presser member yieldingly toward the path of the receptacles.

6. In a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding match receptacles, of a presser member above the path of the receptacles, a pair of blades laterally movable toward and from said path, a support for said blades, lost motion connections between said blades and the presser member, means for yieldingly moving said blades in close relation to the sides of the successive receptacles presented therebetween, and means for vertically moving said presser member including provisions for moving the presser member yieldingly toward the path of the receptacles, and for vibrating or jarring said member when it is in down position.

7. In a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding match receptacles, of a presser member above the path of the receptacles, a pair of swinging blades laterally movable toward and from said path, said blades having angularly-disposed upward and downward projections, a support to which said blades are pivotally connected in spaced relation to each other, lost motion connections between the presser member and the downward projections of the head, a spring connection between the upward projections of the blades, and means for vertically reciprocating said head.

8. In a machine for packing matches, the combination with means for feeding match receptacles, of a presser member above the path of the receptacles, a pair of swinging blades laterally movable toward and from said path, said blades having angularly-disposed upward and downward projections, a support to which said blades are pivotally connected in spaced relation to each other, lost motion connections between the presser member and the downward projections of the head, a spring connection between the upward projections of the blades, and means for vertically reciprocating said head, said latter means including a lever, a spring for moving the lever to elevate the presser member, and a cam for moving the lever to lower said member.

Signed at the city and county of Oswego, and State of New York this 16 day of October A. D. 1914.

MICHAEL PARIDON.

Witnesses:

C. K. LIGHT, 1-1. F. HALLooK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0." 

